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Post by duff on Jan 25, 2019 21:31:27 GMT -5
Cutting the cable...tired of the bs and there are other options but I still want my local news.
What do you guys use? Anything to avoid? I am about 80 miles from Indy and Louisville
Tia
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Post by jjas on Jan 25, 2019 21:45:23 GMT -5
So you are going OTA only?
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Post by esshup on Jan 26, 2019 1:44:55 GMT -5
From my parents experience, good luck. They are right around 68 miles from Chicago stations as the crow flies, and they lost the ability to get them once they switched to digital programming. They are on somewhat of a hill, and their antennae is on the top of a tower that is about 30' in the air. IF the top of the tower has to look thru any trees to "see" Chicago, the trees are about 3/4 mile away. They have an antennae rotator that is controlled from inside the house, and even had the guy come out and put a splitter on it and add a supposedly "digital" antennae to their tower that will also turn with the rotator and it didn't do any better. They can get South Bend stations, but they are maybe 25 miles away.
I have a flat rectangular digital antennae that I put up on the peak of the house and dialed it in to South Bend stations too. I am not as high as they are, and have to look thru trees within 200 yds. Signal is iffy at times, and it will pixelate at times when a car goes by on the road in front of the house.
With the "new, better" digital TV signal, unless you are close to the station, sucking it in via antennae is much more of an iffy proposition.
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Post by beermaker on Jan 26, 2019 5:09:04 GMT -5
I'm not sure what you'll get at that distance, but we have a Mohu "leaf" and it works great. We are only less than 20 miles from the Louisville stations. The only time the signal gets weak is then the trees are in full foliage and it's windy. Other than that, it's every bit as good as cable.
There are some odd stations that I think are from Lexington, which would be around 70 miles. They come in good as well, but I'm not positive where they are from.
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Post by duff on Jan 26, 2019 5:32:06 GMT -5
So you are going OTA only? No idea what ota is? |
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Post by duff on Jan 26, 2019 5:39:07 GMT -5
Hmmm not great news but what I expected. My cousin has been a TV repair and antenna guy for a long time. Or not so much TV repair for the past 20 yrs...different story. He said 80 miles is max and attic would not cut it. He also said dont fall for the gimmicks. Not sure what that means but he thought he may swing down and see what I have.
I am surrounded by trees...lower expectations than I had yesterday!
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Post by duff on Jan 26, 2019 5:41:12 GMT -5
So you are going OTA only? Over the air, duhhh....yes that was my hope. |
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Post by HighCotton on Jan 26, 2019 6:25:51 GMT -5
Cutting the cable...tired of the bs and there are other options but I still want my local news. What do you guys use? Anything to avoid? I am about 80 miles from Indy and Louisville Tia How timely! Thanks for posting this duff! I was gonna do the same. Not to highjack your thread, but I’m in the same mode. Comcast has raised us $50 per month. We actually went in to their store down near Greenwood and they wouldn’t budge. Matter of fact, they kept trying to convince us on the higher, premium package. Well, that sure ain’t gonna happen! My basic routine is a little local news with my coffee in the morning and sports in the evening! We have Netflix, Hulu, and Amazon Prime. I’ll be interested in feedback here! |
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Post by jjas on Jan 26, 2019 6:41:28 GMT -5
Can you stream programming with your internet service or is that part of your cable?
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Post by duff on Jan 26, 2019 7:01:33 GMT -5
Can you stream programming with your internet service or is that part of your cable? Yes I will keep internet only and comcast is only good option for that but I dont need TV or phone from them any longer! Likewise a fire stick and some very minor fees gets me all my family needs, except local news. I can get movies, live network TV and all the sports I want from fire stick for probably 10% the cost of comcast or dish. |
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Post by duff on Jan 26, 2019 7:03:47 GMT -5
Cutting the cable...tired of the bs and there are other options but I still want my local news. What do you guys use? Anything to avoid? I am about 80 miles from Indy and Louisville Tia How timely! Thanks for posting this duff! I was gonna do the same. Not to highjack your thread, but I’m in the same mode. Comcast has raised us $50 per month. We actually went in to their store down near Greenwood and they wouldn’t budge. Matter of fact, they kept trying to convince us on the higher, premium package. Well, that sure ain’t gonna happen! My basic routine is a little local news with my coffee in the morning and sports in the evening! We have Netflix, Hulu, and Amazon Prime. I’ll be interested in feedback here! Yep, I just quarreled with them over monthly price and they convinced me to stay with them at reduced rates...2 months later my cost is higher than it was. Bye bye |
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Post by jjas on Jan 26, 2019 7:15:08 GMT -5
Can you stream programming with your internet service or is that part of your cable? Yes I will keep internet only and comcast is only good option for that but I dont need TV or phone from them any longer! Likewise a fire stick and some very minor fees gets me all my family needs, except local news. I can get movies, live network TV and all the sports I want from fire stick for probably 10% the cost of comcast or dish. I can't help you with an ota antenna that will give you what you want, but I cut the cable 6 months or so ago and went with youtube tv. It gives me my locals, and 40 or more channels including most of the cable news channels and a lot of sports programming. It also comes with a cloud dvr service that works well, all for $40 a month. Here's a link if you are interested tv.youtube.com/welcome/intro/ |
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Post by duff on Jan 26, 2019 7:21:37 GMT -5
Yes I will keep internet only and comcast is only good option for that but I dont need TV or phone from them any longer! Likewise a fire stick and some very minor fees gets me all my family needs, except local news. I can get movies, live network TV and all the sports I want from fire stick for probably 10% the cost of comcast or dish. I can't help you with an ota antenna that will give you what you want, but I cut the cable 6 months or so ago and went with youtube tv. It gives me my locals, and 40 or more channels including most of the cable news channels and a lot of sports programming. It also comes with a cloud dvr service that works well, all for $40 a month. Here's a link if you are interested tv.youtube.com/welcome/intro/That may be my option. Area 51 app on my fire stick gets me everything for $7/month. Even a ton of locals but not indy or lousiville. |
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Post by dbd870 on Jan 26, 2019 8:20:41 GMT -5
We did it until we opened the B&B then we went back on DirecTV for our guests. I’m 40 mi south of INDY and not in a valley. I could get 2/3rds of the INDY stations. 80mi; good luck. I’d look at Roku too.
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Post by nfalls116 on Jan 26, 2019 8:37:22 GMT -5
Cutting the cable...tired of the bs and there are other options but I still want my local news. What do you guys use? Anything to avoid? I am about 80 miles from Indy and Louisville Tia We use Netflix and Hulu. But I’m a news reader not watcher so we don’t have local channels. You can add on all the other local and sports channels to Hulu and I think roku is the same but I haven’t used it. We have used various antennas with different results in the past. Does your house still have a tower or pole for antenna? Or even and old antenna? |
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Post by bill9068 on Jan 26, 2019 9:24:01 GMT -5
I cut the cable about 3 years ago vanderburgh county. Put in a attic antenna that advertised 70 mile reach. Get about 20 channels mostly local. Still get my internet from Comcast but that’s it. My son has Netflix so we piggyback. My Perry county place has no tv local or satellite. Turned it all off. Watch the outdoor channel there, security cameras on food plots live.
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Post by steiny on Jan 26, 2019 14:18:49 GMT -5
We sit on top of a hill and have a 60' antenna, probably get at least 20 good channels for free. We've got a satellite TV dish, but if it was just up to me I'd dump it and just watch the free TV.
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Post by parson on Jan 26, 2019 14:38:45 GMT -5
Wifey says that until Hallmark is broadcast over the air we gonna stay connected.
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Post by parrothead on Jan 26, 2019 18:44:27 GMT -5
I am hour from Indy and L vile I get stations from both. Goin to guess I get around 50 stations
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Post by nfalls116 on Jan 26, 2019 19:02:34 GMT -5
Do your local stations offer free casting online?
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